The best thing about Pixar’s Brave might have been the short film that preceded it: Enrico Casarosa‘s film La Luna, in which a young boy is introduced to the unusual job performed by the men in his family. The young guy at the center of the film finds himself in a rowboat at midnight with his gently bickering father and grandfather, and soon learns the enormity of the family business.

The short is a lovely little coming of age fable with clear influence from The Little Prince and the films of Hayao Miyazaki, and you can watch it in full below.